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EHM-1077 Emanuele:
Bruno, thanks for your comments.

I've been with EHM for a bit less than Merlin and Roberto, just a bit short of
two years (or is it short of three?? I can't remember, it seems so long ago and
the time went so fast!) and I've been always pleased with design of the
website and I think Gergely, Maarten, Magnus and now Roberto did and
are doing a fantastic job at it.

To address your specific issues:
Among the websites you mention, Gateway Air and Tap Virtual don't
seem anything special to me, and they actually feel cluttered and unfocused.
BA virtual has a lovely website but they aim at a professional look while we
aim at a friendly look. I think both our website excel at the choosen aim.

Some images -do- rotate on the website. Like the header on the World
Tour page. From a technical standpoint this is not too difficult, but it
means that for every page where so far we use one picture we need,
say, three or four more. Multiplied by all pages on EHMwebsite that's a
lot of work and a lot of time to do it. Are you proposing yourself as the
artist taking care of providing us with all those pictures? Or would you
prefer to organize a team?

Your tree-navigation idea is a bit vague. Are you talking about a
directory-like structure explicitely used as navigational mean?
I wouldn't like it, be I'd consider it if we had a lot of nested level
of information. We don't. We have about three levels and they
are all confortably reachable through the existing menu icons and
menu bar. Still, I might change my opinion if can I see a visual example.
Can you provide one? And would you be able to implement
and  support the scripting for such navigation tool?

The first page is fairly organized. Admittedly, it hasn't been updated
too frequently lately, other than for the automatically generated content.
If you have a nice idea of a different layout, why don't you prepare
a prototype html page and show us what you mean?

Frame too small: my 17" monitor is normally set on 1280x1024.
This size allows me to confortably browse the website without
covering the whole desktop while it allow people using lower
resolutions and smaller monitors (14"  800x600), to also browse
the pages confortably. What I'm saying is: if me and you are
lucky enough to have a big monitor and high-res, that doesn't
mean everybody else does too, and we should think to the
people with the minimum specs, not those with the highest.

It's technically possible to create a different look for each different
resolution, but it would be a fairly long and boring work to reshape
the whole website in that direction.  Again, a lot of time to spend
when we already have plenty of things in store.

Life Support: indeed it's something that hasn't been taking off
so far.  There's not much to argue about that.

Concerning the "open spirit basis",  it's always welcome.
I'm sure you have been as open reading the reminder of this post
and you understand that while something is obvious for you,
or simply not to your liking, the judgement of other might, sometime,
differ. Slightly.

Ciao ciao!

Manu

EHM-0948 Bruno:
Well ...

The idea was to "measure the pulse" of people and see if everyone shared my opinion or not.

I can see that everyone (ok, the ones that made a reply :) ) are satisfied with the site, so I dont see what a preview could bring better chances the optimizations that I talked before.

Maybe one day we could get this conversation again on the air :) ...  

Best Regards to all of you,

EHM-0001 Gergely:
Of course we're open for suggestions... but creating a new site is enormous work... currently no one is able to deal with it... we'll see about it in the future...

And of course we'll change several things on the current site too, I guess we'll remove Live support, I will change the poll etc.

What do you mean by 'the information should change more often'?

Kind regards,
Gergely

EHM-0948 Bruno:
Gergely,

From my comentaries i am not saying of build a new and fresh site.
When I say that I am tired of the site is that we could modify some things (CSS styles, images, etc etc) and with that we re-fresh the site.

I never meant to dump all the site. That's the point I get misunderstood :) .
I think like I have opened a pandora box, and now everyone is saying that I said to build a new complete site. That's not the point of it. You have brilliant PHP scripts, you have many things automated, and that is right.

When I mean the information should change more often is based on get in the site (first page) and see new things, new news, and more dinamic context.

For example, you could have 4 ou 5 polls, that could change everytime someone goes to the site.

You could have a part on the first page of real-aviation news based on a crawler that goes to another aviation news site and grabs the news and posts on our page :) ... (of course with the permission the the real aviation news site).

You could have a part on the first page of last Pirep's reported. For example, when someone posts a PIREP you must there the codename, time, dep and arrival :) ....

This type os things call attention of the users that goes to the site ... and shows that the site is live.

I am making you thinking on this type os things because, as you say, EuroHarmony really is a VA that is worth of flying for :) .. and I thought about it and decide to write my feelings about the VA in the Forum.

See ya again in more selvatic posts! :D :D ...

EHM-0962 Zhen Yi:
Hmm.......the live support is a really good idea.....sad to see it scraped :[ Just curious to know......is the live support "technically" completed and only needs people to man the system or is the system not even done yet? If it's the former case, how about volunteers?

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